KETO
minidoos
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Everything KETO - your questions and experiences.
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I just started Keto at 10 days in.
Off BP tablets now - 117 / 75 Yahoo!
It’s a complex diet. I have made many mistakes. Hoping my home made electrolyte drink helps dehydration. Not loosing weight so it’s a case of have to count calories. On it I always feel hungry after 2 hours of meal. Just waiting for next meal is difficult. Dizzy in the mornings after longer intermittent fast. Week lacking energy often.1 -
Sounds like you are really struggling with keto. What is the reason you have chosen this way of eating?
If you are always hungry 2 hours after eating you will continue to struggle on keto. Some people find fat the most filling which is why keto works well for them. It helps with their satiety. Others though find they need more protein (which can still be achieved on keto), but others need whole grains, fibre or starch.4 -
I started Keto a month ago and found 20 carbs a day just wasn't going to cut it for me. I set a goal of no more than 50 carbs a day but my goal is to stay around 30-35. This is more obtainable for me and have found that 20 carbs is now not so out of reach; I will get there. So I guess I am not fully Keto, however, I have lost 12.4 lbs in a month so it is working for me.
I have also found my taste buds have changed. I know I do not like any kind of buns now or anything with breading. Unhealthy foods that I used to love I can't stomach any more.
I mess up often but I chalk it up to a learning experience and I don't beat myself up when I go over my limit. Especially when I think about how many carbs I used to eat. I believe eating a low carb diet is an achievable life change for me since I don't feel as deprived as I have with other diets. My biggest challenge is staying creative and not getting bored with the same foods. I know if I get bored I will fail so I try to keep a variety of different foods available and am always on Pinterest.
Happy Ketoing or in my case, low carbing.
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I started Keto a month ago and found 20 carbs a day just wasn't going to cut it for me. I set a goal of no more than 50 carbs a day but my goal is to stay around 30-35. This is more obtainable for me and have found that 20 carbs is now not so out of reach; I will get there. So I guess I am not fully Keto, however, I have lost 12.4 lbs in a month so it is working for me.
I have also found my taste buds have changed. I know I do not like any kind of buns now or anything with breading. Unhealthy foods that I used to love I can't stomach any more.
I mess up often but I chalk it up to a learning experience and I don't beat myself up when I go over my limit. Especially when I think about how many carbs I used to eat. I believe eating a low carb diet is an achievable life change for me since I don't feel as deprived as I have with other diets. My biggest challenge is staying creative and not getting bored with the same foods. I know if I get bored I will fail so I try to keep a variety of different foods available and am always on Pinterest.
Happy Ketoing or in my case, low carbing.
That's totally still keto. I have no idea where the 20 number everyone is so fond of came from, but at your current levels you're almost certainly in ketosis. I'm in ketosis and my total carbs are usually somewhere in the 60's, net in the 30's and 40's. As long as your net carbs account for around 5-10% of your total calories you're doing keto.
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I just started Keto at 10 days in.
Off BP tablets now - 117 / 75 Yahoo!
It’s a complex diet. I have made many mistakes. Hoping my home made electrolyte drink helps dehydration. Not loosing weight so it’s a case of have to count calories. On it I always feel hungry after 2 hours of meal. Just waiting for next meal is difficult. Dizzy in the mornings after longer intermittent fast. Week lacking energy often.
Welcome @minidoos.
1500 days in and Keto is still reversing life long health issues in my case at the age of 67.
Hey I butched keto really bad the first 90 days well make that the first year. Since it is working to reverse health concerns you are good to go long term I expect. As long as I keep my mind I will never go back to the HCHF WOE that I was on until Oct 2014 at the age of 63 and was a very sick puppy.
Actually keto is a very simple Way Of Eating that has been around since man. Much that we read about keto is not from people that have no long term experience with nutritional ketosis. Just keep moving forward and the complexity will fade away. Other than keeping carbs to around 50 grams daily and not going low on your total calories there is little more to know actually and you will pick that up as you move forward with Keto so do not stress about anything just yet.
Keto is not some weight loss program but when it helps heal our bodies the weight loss may occur. While I was losing my fat face early on I did not lose the first pound on full Keto until day 45.
It is awesome about your BP levels and side stepping any Rx meds side effects. Keep watching for new health bonuses from your new Way Of Eating. Keep reading and learning.
The weakness happened in my case at first then I realized I did not need to cut calories but just keep the carbs down to around 50 grams daily. I realized in my case to just eat when I am hungry. You most likely are not burning ketones very well but that should be starting anytime. Since I was so weak from years of IBS and it took about 6 months for the IBS to fully resolve (it has been gone for 3.5 years now) and after that I started getting stronger than before Keto.
Best of success.7 -
Putting in figures today, I couldn’t find enough fat to eat and anything extra I put in just turned up the protein and carbs. At a bit of a loss to make it a good day. Any ideas?1
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Weightloss will in itself improve your blood pressure. I can't tell from your posts if you want to lose weight, but to lose weight, you have to eat less, and that's not always easy, so if weightloss (and blood pressure) is important to you, it's important to not make eating less as difficult as possible, but as easy as possible. But it's not really that hard either. The hard thing is to activate common sense and commit for life. We all want things we do to be dramatic and fun and impressive, but the real challenge is to stick to ordinary, mundane tasks, day in, day out.4
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Kommodevaran what you say I’d have to agree. But that’s not Keto.0
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But is keto important? Why?5
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Keto has a lot more benefits than just loosing weight. If you manage it in the long run. I’m doing it because of health reasons and to loose weight. Sugars and high carbs intake causes cravings and a lot of health problems.
I’ve done calorie counting it works really well for Weightloss however you can be slim and still have health problems.6 -
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You can also be slim and not have health problems.Keto has a lot more benefits than just loosing weight. If you manage it in the long run. I’m doing it because of health reasons and to loose weight. Sugars and high carbs intake causes cravings and a lot of health problems.
I’ve done calorie counting it works really well for Weightloss however you can be slim and still have health problems.
You can be slim without eating keto.
And you can be slim and still have health problems no matter how you lost the weight.
Any diet that creates a calorie deficit, will make you lose weight if you stick to it.
The really difficult thing with any diet, is to stick to it.
You can reduce sugar intake without eating keto.
Cravings are annoying, but it's consistent overeating and unbalanced diets that causes health problems.
Keto, or any diet, is not a guarantee against cravings.
There is no law against making things easier.
It's actually smart to make it easier to succeed.6 -
Putting in figures today, I couldn’t find enough fat to eat and anything extra I put in just turned up the protein and carbs. At a bit of a loss to make it a good day. Any ideas?
I have been keto for almost 2 years. I treat the fat as a limit and not a goal, and I seem to be lower in my fat macro than many. Finding the happy place for me in terms of the macros and general satisfaction with how I feel and what I am eating has had me raise the protein goal. For me anyway hunger is very well controlled. Energy is very good.
FWIW, my protein goal is 35%.1 -
Wasn’t for me. Always constipated, no energy, light headed. And I didn’t like cutting out foods.0
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Putting in figures today, I couldn’t find enough fat to eat and anything extra I put in just turned up the protein and carbs. At a bit of a loss to make it a good day. Any ideas?
Cheese; avocado; macadamia nuts; not worrying so much.
Fat has more than double the caloric density of carbs or protein, so once you get used to ignoring the “fat is bad” mentality it adds up pretty quickly. Cook in butter or oil and then sprinkle some Parmesan on top. Eat eggs and peanut butter. There’s fat everywhere, but if you’re really struggling you can make fat bombs from any of the 70 billion recipes on Pinterest and eat those from time to time, as well. 🙂3 -
Putting in figures today, I couldn’t find enough fat to eat and anything extra I put in just turned up the protein and carbs. At a bit of a loss to make it a good day. Any ideas?
Give yourself 90 days to let let your body to give you feedback. Unless one is underweight most of us can count the stored fat calories that we can burn so all the fat calories does not have to be eaten that day.
It is way more than a numbers game with concrete rules.
You are on the road to success but there are curves that we all have to get past. Listen to your body more than the rest of us and you will be OK I expect.3
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